The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-15
Dlk0Il MEMS NoIEs.


Maud =. Gray, daughter Of Capt.
Cyrus N. Gray. late Of the United
States army. Their marriage will
take place early in January next in
Washington. d. g. Lieut.. Adams grad
uated from West Point last June, and
was appointed q second lieutenant in
Gray's former company, sta
toned at Fort Meade, Oak.
At Pierre. warrants were issued by
United States Commissioners Coy for
the arrest Of Standing Boy and twenty
other Indians. charging them with as.
sault in having pulled guns on settlers
who had bought wood Of them. The
wood was On the Winnebago reserva-
ton, and after the whites had paid
for the wood the Indians refused to
allow them to depart with their pur.
chase.
The Fargo Board Of Trade hoEes to
get several new manufacturing estab,
lishments to locate at Fargo.
The tracklayers on the illinois Cen
trail railroad, who expected to spike
down the last rail in Sioux Falls on
the 10th inst. will probably not reach
there before the j st Of January. They
are now fourteen miles distant.
The Huron, Coal and Mining com
pany reorganized, with John A Kemp
us president, Henry X. Rice vice presi.
dent, II. s. Brown secretary and
treasurer and James Russell euperin-.
tendent. These are all business MN.
The company is understood to have
abundant cash to carry the enter.
prise to success.
Ezra Baird, United States marshal
for Idaho, arrived at Sioux Falls.
with five Mormons for the United
States penitentiary. They are all
from, Idaho, and have been convicted
OF polygamy. Josiah Richardson,
Austin G. Green, Josephing Byington.
and William Severen have been con-
victed OF adultery and sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years.
These four have also been convicted
OF unlawful cohabitation, which adds
six months to their sentences, The.
fifth man is Sidney Weeks. who has
been convicted OF adultery. His sen
tence is for three years.
The postofice at Dunbar, Sargent
county, was discontinued.
The Aberdeen Electric Light compa.
ny have just added an in~candescant
plant and nearly all the business are
using them.
Sheriff Benton and his deputy az
Fargo were found guilty OF cruelty to
animals and fined $3.50.
Agrader named Miller, employed on
the Duluth, Willmar & Sioux Falls
railroad grade at Palisade, took a car
OF dynamite into the blacksmith shop
to thaw it out, with the usual result.
Mrs. Rltzius, wife OF Capt. II. p.
Ritzius, of the United States army,
died at her residence in Yankton 81
consumption. Her first husband was
Col. William Pond. who was United
States district attorney for Dakota
several years previous to his death,
which occurred several years ago.
Mrs. Mason OF Yankton, who had
the lucky number which drew SIS, 900
in q lottery recently. was a member
OF a pool OF Sioux Falls ladies. She
refused to whack up even, and the
Sioux Falls National bank, to which
the money had been forwarded, was
enjolned by the five other members Of
the pool from paying 1t over to Mrs.
Mason. 1t leaked out recently that
in the event tina matter was taken in
to court, the $4,000 would be de-
clared contrabanl STUFF and confis-,
Gated for the benefit Ofthe school fund,
and the lucky ladies have concluded
to compromise with the luckiest mem
Der OF the pool. Thus the school fund
loses q fat wad. s
Auditor Ward has revoked the au-
thority of the Chesapeake Insurance
Of Washington. D. G., and
that of the Trans-C Continental Fire
and Marine, of Mandan; the former
~because.afits disregard Of obligations
and the latter Tor lack Of capitsl.
Otto Poeniller has been sworn IN
IS q member ofthe Yankton asylum
board.
August Methian, Jr., on his fathers
farm, thres miles west of Scotland,
was engaged in grinding corn with a
horse power and crusher when the
machine became clogged. Young
Nathan undertook to clean the ma
chine out while in motion and his
head was caught between the sweep
and tnmblingrod breaking his heck. !,
]. A. McIntosh.wEo wns wanted for
the murder at b Philadslphia travel.
ing mans wife and two children was
caught at Fargo.
Miss Ninsiow snubbed the